Compotes With Footed Quotes & Sayings

Wanting to want something isn't the same as wanting it. I suppose what I really wanted, then, was to give more of a shit, because about certain things, I simply did not. — Augusten Burroughs

The thing about taking risks is, if it's really a risk, you really can fail. It's only a pretend risk if you really can't fail. — Connie Britton

I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves. — Malala Yousafzai

Politics, these days, is no occupation
for an educated man, a man of character.
Ignorance and total lousiness are better. — Aristophanes

I believe businesses don't grow or develop in terms of a blueprint. There is a huge element of opportunism involved. — Christoffel Wiese

We're Easter people, living in a Good Friday world. — Anne Lamott

Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and higher, elating the Self and the Other. Plato clearly regards any actual physical contact as corrupt and ignoble because he thinks the true goal of Eros is beauty. Is there no beauty in sex? Not according to Plato. He is after 'more sublime pursuits.' But if you ask me, I think Plato's problem, like those of many others, was that he never got splendidly laid. — Elif Shafak

Your teacher did not want to be a teacher. He wanted to be a meter reader at the electric utility. Meter readers do not have to put up with children, work comparatively little, and what is more important, have greater opportunity for corruption and are hence both better off and held in higher regard by society. — Mohsin Hamid

You know that eye-to-eye recognition, when two people look deeply into each other's pupils, and burrow to the soul? It usually comes before love. I mean the clear, deep, milk-eyed recognition expressed by the poet Donne. Their eyebeams twisted and did thread their eyes upon a double string. My father recognized that the Professor was a Troll, and the Professor recognized my father's recognition. Both of them knew that the Professor had eaten his wife. - The Troll — T.H. White